Brockagh
Brockagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmanman, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An Bhrocach.
Parcel 2387587
- Area
- 21,522 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Brockagh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1942 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 252 ha
- 623 acres
- Land parcels
- 84
- registered freehold, median 5,734 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brockagh, from 116 m² to 189,242 m² (18.92 ha, 46.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Brockagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Oct 2025Conditional
Construct a dormer dwelling house, garage, bored well, effluent treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560714
26 Sept 2025Conditional
construct a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560621
23 Sept 2025N/a
construct a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560612
14 Dec 2022Conditional
Permission for new single storey dwelling, domestic garage, access road, connection to public utilities and associated siteworks to include amending existing site boundaries
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2260040
4 Nov 2022N/a
construct new single storey dwelling, domestic garage, access road, connection to public utilities and associated site works to include amending existing site boundaries
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22687
15 Jul 2022Conditional
extend existing dwelling, demolition works and alterations to existing dwelling, a new garage, de-commission the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22435
27 Jun 2022N/a
extend existing dwelling, a new garage, de-commission the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 22390
20 Mar 2020Conditional
construct one number detached two storey dwelling, one number detached single storey garage, to create new entrance to public road , to install a mini treatment system and specified percolation area, to install a private well and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20153
10 Dec 2019Conditional
construct a dwelling house, detached garage with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19684
29 May 2019N/a
construct a one and a half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19303
24 Aug 2017Conditional
construct new dwelling house, waste-water treatment system and polishing filter, and to use existing entrance as shared entrance and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17456
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Annaghmore Lough Fen (Offaly) 000413
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brockagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brockagh.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Brockagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1970 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Brockagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Brockagh · An Bhrocach
- Area
- 2,520,405 m² (252.04 ha, 622.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmanman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tinnahinch
- Electoral division
- Clonaslee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 954 people lived in 347 households in the Clonaslee electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghbrack Glebe (Co. Offaly), Annaghmore (Co. Offaly), Ballynakill, Brockaghbeg, Capparogan, Cappusteen, Clonaslee, Cloonagh Beg, Cloonagh More, Coolaboghlan, Curraghnadeige, Cush Upper, Derrintray Glebe, Derry
- Placenames
- Brockagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.